Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 1

Octvoitjfrcc rtw WEATHER INAL Cloudy EDITION Governor Hold Prisoner Have I uuvcruor noiai rnoucr nave Suffered Enough and Are The Not jau)n BRITAIN STOPS JUNKING SHIPS the i UHHK Ion he HOPES i TO RETAIN TOGA dlsxentlng had talked oyer the fnturvPl fe thei'nireiwnr Idmlairtratldn witt5 several ot his appointee Including Joseph A Martin commission ot 8 f'V BOTES' lAIESl WIRE MSB GENUINE CLAIM the $911 garnishee :30 Are Held When Police I 1 IT $1000 IS TAKEN IN 3 HOLDUPS APPOINTED BY IRE COMMISSION TO HEAD BATTALION MOJOB WITH SENAT0RSI1I HOUSE PASSES SHIPPING BILL BY 208184 VOTE ILHNOIS REES LLOYD 16 PALS GUILTY IN WAR prison that home near with have the the gold want know have what to Jail of RrosNentenaei( I Net Criminal 17 men Governor he was In full BATT Al JOS CHIE AXTHONY KAETZ (See Story on our Column Ona) rfiU And 'lNw York Nov Mayor James Couzens a forest of crysan tliemums and a mountain of tele grams on the table In front of him smiled his satisfaction tonight on his appointment to the Michigan seat in the United States senate as he faced files of reporters and batteries of cameras In his rooms at the Hotel JleluionL They plied him With questions He referred them to a prepared Statement but they returned to the Interrogatory attack and ef forts to Bound him on hl senti ments toward Innumerable national Issues 100 Persons Raid Loaded Coal Car Philadelphia Nov A raid on a loaded coal car before daylight wan made by about 100 people In South Philadelphia Wednesday Men stood in the car and ehoveled the coal to the street while women and children with baskets sacks and palls carried it away RETIRING MAYOR DETROIT AND HIS SUCCESSOR came from leader but Prison 69 Republican Member Join Democrats in Opposing Subsidy Measure Acting Mayor Must Resign to Become Candidate is Official Opinion THREE CENTS COMMISSIONER INCHES DENIES HE WILL RUN Jim come bock just long enough To take the whim 'At like to go on for a second term mayor he would nnt 1 to succeed himself but accAing me position Nagel who now pre Armed Pair Invade Meat Shop as Owner Counts Cash Two men one armed khrfd nil and robbed John Roth In bis watmas ket nt 605! Dlx avenue escaping with (91135 shortly "before 'mid night Wednesday Th jvfled through a rear door which Both had been forced to "Unlock Roth was counting his money upon a counter after havlhg dosed his atore and drawn the shades ho heard a knock at th front door Opening It he was covered with a pistol by one of' the thugs while the other scooped up the bills and cur rency from the counter Police were given a description of the pair hirst a couple of yellow cars Disting'shed Jim Enemies ust to wonder why The old town 'feared wrapped up in him But when the Sews kep' a writin! back 'At Jim was the greatest mayor we'd had the city should pave' eyery street car track With the service good and Vie profits bad And the interurbans all painted green Should be off the streets and made to stop Attluity Use Jhenjn writin' Think of a millionaire perhaps We'll say like Jim clinging to the straps And fh old town wrapped up' in him Think of him now with his job not through it to somebody else to do Ift Tuk the papers the old town did A readin' of Jim Hopin' straighten the tangle out Some wrapped up him An' whenever the printed word ud tcome That he'd made a nickel the town would hum Like the time he argued with old Dan Smith And give him something to reckon with And told him "whaf to his angry I face If 'kite the cheers of the ganjrang thrnuah the blace As they hooted and hollered arid urged him on And Jim anyone With the old town's words in his mind all day good bye Jim Take keer of Special to Th ree rro Harlem Nov The char red body of Mrs Ida Willingham 60 was foun In the back yard of her home here Wednesday by her daughter Annie It Is supposed Mrs Willingham had been burned to death accidentally the night Bits of burned paper were found about the body' i Mrs Willingham and her daugh ter live alone Pair Unearth Body Hands and eet Bound in Vacant Lot New York Nov The body of a woman believed by the police to be that ot Mrs Jennie Becker of the Bronx who disappeared six months ago was found tonight in tv vacant lot near her home Her husband Abraham Becker and a friend of the family Reuben Norkin arc held as material wit nesses District Attorney Glennon express'd belief that the woman had been murdered 1V hundred persons many of them women shoppers with laden market baskets in hand witnessed the gruesome And The crowd had been present since mid afternoon when It was learned that Becker had Informed the police his missing wife lay burled in the vacant lot which since had become an auto mobile repair yard The body was encased In bed ticking from which the col or had faded Hands and feet were bound tightly together and accord ing to the authorities she lr evL dence of having been heaten to death In the months snent bv the notice In reconstructing events preceding Mrs dlsapearance they learned that on the night ot April 9 Becker and his wife visited friends and drove away in his car Becker the police say told them that on his way home he stopped at the welding shop of Norkin This Is a lonely spot at night being sur rounded by vacant lots' The police questioned Norkin for hours at a stretch beginning yester day Today they started again and kept It up until sunset' when they took him outside his shop Norkin continued to deny know ing anything about It inally one of the detectives gripped him by the collar and pointed to various spots until they assert Norkin said: "Dig there and you'll And her" As soon as the body was unearth ed Norkin was ordered held as a material witness and was locked up in default of ball CITY ADMINISTRATION TO GO ON UNCHANGED Shouting It rom the Housetops Silence is sometimes en but not when you something and I where to find it You to let the world know it is you want and where tcfind you if you expect any measure of success ree Press Want Ads figuratively shout your message from the housetops from early morn Any wonder that they bring RESULTS most always be fore noon? their rec ord CALL AD TAKER MAIN 9400 THANKSGIVING DANCE TO NIGHT Biggest crowd In Detroit Tur keys ayd fun New Majestic Adr A MATTER 'of THANKSGIVING Palais dance from 3 to 12 Come Adr to the ll'hen the plague broke out and Jim he said He could buy them lines and run too And all at the old town had to say Was us the price that we'll have to pay It's a good buy Jim Take keer of VOL 88 NO '64 EIGHT WOLVERINES QUIT PARTY LINES Banf Cashier Declare Writ ing is That of Romie Ho ti ell Meda' Takes Stand II ELBEN SMALL ree Pre Mart Correspondent White Cloud Mich Nov Hi the closing moments of the de fense battle for the freedom of Mrs Alice Dudgeon accused murderess Wednesday the so called suicide notea left by Romie Hodell and addressed to his young wife of less than a year once more figured Reamer Wygte cashier' of the Big Rapids Savings bank after qualifying as a pennmanshlp expert declared the notes In which the dead man seemed to announce his intention of ending his own life were unquestionably In his hand writing and were not forgeries He took a seat directly before the Jury and went at length into the peculiarities of various letters and marks that bore conviction to his mind and that convinced him that Med Hodell whose handwriting specimens also were befove him could not have written the notea One of the alleged confessions obtained from the young lfe by Continued on Pare Threat Column One ANTI SYNDICALIST ACT I NOT TEACE rank Doremu John Nagel Also Mentioned a PosL ble Contender In order that ha might geek elec tion as Mayor of Detroit John Lodge president of the common council and acting mayor would have to resign his position ebru ary 3 according to an Interpreta tion placed upon the election pro visions of the city charter Wed nesday by Clarence Wilcox and by Lodge himself Rather than hand in his resignation at a time when the city budget is being pre pared and when his services would be needed most Lodge said he would not enter a mayoralty cam paign "I do not believe that I would be doing my duty to the people who elected me should I tt at such a time Lodge said Wednes day afternoon than take such action I will remain out ot the race for mayor at the spring elec tion and following the election of a man to fill Mr unexpired term will return to lhe presidency of the common council to which I was elected The charter appar ently la clear this matter and evidently there Is nn way to grt a decision on tnia provision from Until Mayor Cousena stepped it wka generally believed that The appointment of Mayor Cous ena early Wedneaday did not create tny great aurprlao around the city hall The mayor had known of hie appointment since Monday andhad talked over the fnturvplBA ai Kind of Men Women Want to A special investigator for The ree Press setxout to discover what qualities wom en prefer in husbands And what she found out will offer plenty of food for thought for all concerned! Looks money brains? What does the average woman want? Watch for the answers in the Magazine Section ree Press Stinbenm Clnh Attention! forget the meeting at Orchestra hall Saturday December 2 at 2:80 sharp A fine program in cluding Edgar A Guest DANCE AT A EVE ARCADIA Live turkeys free Spectators' balcony Adv Women Trapped By ire Saved Washington Nov 29 Trapped by Are which cut off the stairway to the second floor of the office build ing two women overcome by heat and smoke were carried to safety by firemen late Wednesday after noon They were Miss Minnie Rob inson a stenographer and Mrs John A Nichols wife of a real estate broker ONE DEAD IN We ertown Md One man Is dead another prob ably fatally burned and a third man la miaslng as a result of a fire here late today which par tially destroyed the Pennsyl vania railroad freight station The dead man was Leslie Rotz 2" assistant cashier at the sta tion The Injured man is Clar ence Klsert cashier HERRICK HAS EAST Paris Nov 29 (By the As sociated Press) The American club treated Ambassador Myron Herrick and the rench sens tor Henry de Jotivenel tonight to a Thanksgiving dinner as 1 near to the old fashioned var iety as the rencl kitchen can i supply Ship Building SuspendedWashington Nov 29 (By Aartr'f pH Pres) Neither United States nor any other country jdgnatory to the Washington naval limitation treaty has begun the scrapping of warships provided for in that treaty bo far as the Wash ington government Is aware It was said Wednesday at the navy depart ment that the only aspect of the treaty already brought Into force was the suspension of new capital ship construction in the United States and Japan Great Britain had no new ships actually under construction The scrapping of warships which has been proceeding Great Brit ain Japan and the United States it was explained has affected only vessels which are formally classi iled by each power a wholly obso lete for naval purposes In the States this work has been proceeding under an old statute long prior to the Washington con ference providing that the presi dent may sell or break up or other wise dispose of obsolete war ves sels at his discretion The special act of congress au thorising the scrapping of new war Continued on Page Three Column Eight 3 1 1'1 BE Nov 29 I5TERNATIONAL THANKSGIVING DINNER S15O Prlnco Edward Hotel Windsor Canadi Ten minutes from Woodward Are erry Adv Old nhlnned Thank giving Dinner Thursday Hotel Norton Restaurant bans ejectment writs CJnelnnatl Nov City Sheriff Harry Dahlke announc ed today that during th' holiday season or until January 5 be will not bo a party to ejecting any widow or orphans from their homes because of inability to pay rent neither will he aid in garnisheelng the wages of workmen or in making any forced collections urther he declared that during the hell 'd ays he will not receive reple vin ejectment nr garnishee suits ftp to The ree Pre aribault Minn Nov 29 More than (25000 In loot (7000 In cash the balance In Liberty bonds was the toll of robbers who entered the State Bank of lxnsdale seven mile from here between midnight and 12:45 Wednesday morning An acetylene torch with which the rnfe had been cut was found when the bank staff went bn duty Wednes aay ififh' and it's 'txibya' Jim i To stick to his post and a him The If nerds him the not done Riverhead Nov 29 A note within a bottle found floating Wed nesday In Long Island sound said the writer and five other persons had been adrift in mid ocean in a stalled power boat for two weeks are concluded the mes sage which aske4 that Gregg ot New London Conn be notified The note was signed Gregg'u It was undated Daaee Temple Ballroom Tonight Entertainers and singers Larry and io wntnwind dancers open Quizzed in Hint Re Election i Dodge i National Iwuea UMIIJIAM RICHARDS A'C No Legislation Exist to Bar Retiring Mayor1 rom Dual Activities The ship subsidy asked on to san" of the Volstead law 7 I suggested am broadly speaking a pro hibitionist but I am not an ada mant fanatic on the subject he said of European debts?" with particular party or I grdup will you I he hajted the question I rs with a leveled furfinger "I amnot going? to fly off thq handle I am a Tupubllcan I hope I am a progressive Republican But I am Kolng to Washington to' represent the whole people and no especial frac yon of the people am not going to Washington committed to anything or anybody but di the people of my was considerable opposi tion to your It was suggested Eveqr protest '1 a he an swered from the said one man as Mr Couzens extended his hand uted to be on the Detroit News and you bawled me out The new senator daugbed "Oh Tve bawled out a lot of he said He looked a figur of health and Continued on Three Colanin our public works Henry Steffens con 1 troiler and Clarence Wilcox corporation counsel He also had a conference with John Lodge who took his chair on Wednesday fol lowing the departure of the mayor i fti Nm Vrxrlz TnaaHw VVWUWJ infill A story published on Wednesday stating that Cummlaaloner Martin would likely be named head of the street railway department was not given much credence in eity half circles Martin said he had heerd u'iiuna io mar enact atayor vouz ens recently said ho was pleased with the manner In which Martin has conducted ths It 1 known Coussns would not favor lhe removal of Martin from that department Mr Lodge alo la pleased with Martin's administra tion of his department To Return Io Detroit Appointment of Mayor Consent to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Truman Vewberrv was officially announced from Lan sing Wednesday morning and Gov ernor Groesbeck later telephoned to the mayor at the Belmont hotel New York The mayor accepted the appointment over the telephone and likely will take the oath of office next week Mr Ixxlge was advised by the mayor that he would return to Detroit Monday It Is not be lieved that he will go to Washing ton before he returns to Detroit though dispatches stated that he Continued Three Column Two 2 WOMEN SHOP EARLY BUT TO PAY The old town handed a shock to him IVith a Aood of votes which said: Jim take keer of a zi (kc nr tiuDifK tv And the old voice still shoutin' on: I 'Well good bye Jim Take keer of McTORMACK SINGS ARCADIA Nxt Monday Eve Dec 4 Adv WINTER GARDEN A New Amusement World soon Adv amily riend Bares Grave of Slain Wife ADDISON HOTEL I' lorentine Room opens at 4 ni today Dine and dance with Hav Miller's Orchestra No cover chare Adv Suave Waits 15 Minutes Store Empties He Ues Pistol More than $1000 cash was the combined loot of three brazen hold ups Wednesday night Two ot the robberies are believed to have been staged by the same pair of thugs A suave and ngratlatlng man wait'd 15 minutes In the shoe store of Herbert Holden at 6633 Till man avenue before he seized an opportunity to rob the place of the receipts (600 at 9:30 The store was full of customers when the well dressed stranger en tered He told the proprietor he was waiting for his wife When all the purchasers had left ttfa thug rushed behind the coun ter shoved a pistol against Hol abdomen and threatened him with death If he made outcry With the gun still near his side the proprietor war forced to go to the cash register remove the money and place It In a money bag The robber grabbed the bag and then commanded Holden to go Into the cellar When the proprietor heard the robber going out he Continued on nze Three Column Eight Third Burch Jury Is Discharged Los Angeles Cat Nov 29 The jury In the third trial of Arthur Burch for the murder of Belton Kennedy reported to Judge John Shank at 9:45 tonight that it was hopelessly deadlocked and was discharged The Old Town and Jim (After Jamas Whiteemb Riley) BY I3XUX OLD town net er did muck till they Elected Jim And Jim wm th richest mayor we'd had And the old town jes wrapped up us himt Elected him mayor not once But twice and the first time was All Conference Eleven Announced Sunday Walter Eckersall who is to football in the west what Walter Camp is to the great college game in the east will select an all conference mythical eleven exclusively for The ree Press next Sunday Two Michigan men appear in the group of the first eleven and four of the Wolverines are on the second team Eckersall is regarded the foremost football critic in the west and middle west and his selections of all conference and all western elevens have to be accepted as official Eckersall weighs the merit of each man selected and explains in detail why he was selected In selecting the team it was Ecker aim assemble the very best men in their respective posi tions to make for the strongest attack and power on defense Look for the selections Exclusively Next Sunday in The ree Press And the old town jes' wrapped up in him Jim he had pich luck afore he guessed tackle it four years more the old town give him the cnance to ao job started and see it through settled back to let him go make a wuccess of the old 31 As he'd vowed to do With the gang to say: tv ell good bye Jim Take keer of like uv wo more satisfied To leave it to Jim Cos he'd won out where a lot had tried And the town was juT wrapped up in him And over and ove? we mind the day He ordered the jitneys to keep away I With the old town and boostin' Jim the jitney drivers who rose to say: i "If "ell good bye Jim Take keer of Chiefs and Lodge Agree on Rail Arrangement Continues Policy Mayor James Conxenj accepted Governor Groesbeck' appoint ment a States IBeejtor Wednesday afternoon bat he wtH retain the general managership of the Detroit Municipal Street Rail way system aa long a the new mayor and the street railway com minion are agreeable The commission met with Aoting Mayor John Lodge la the after noon ollowing the meeting It was stated that all conoerned would bo agreeable to Mr Couzene con tinuing to serve as activs head ct the The retiring mayor has held this position for some time without salary and there I no leg Islatlon to prevent him continuing after he retires a mayor and takes his seat io the sonata Lodge Adopt Coeieas IHaaa As far as Mr Lodge Is concerned this arrangement will be approved and all members of the street rati way commission appointees ot Mas or Couzene are agreeable Mr Lodge Mid that long as ho eon tlnues to act aa mayor he will ea deavnr to carry out the poliey ot the Content' administration and will not jremove from office any men ho have named as depart mental heads by retiring exeen tlve sir uooge win continue rn the mayor's chair until next April when the voters at a special elec tion will choose his successor Mayor Couzcns Is expected to In form the street railway commission as to who he believes should be the nominal head of Ihs Ik It the man who will remain on the ground to attend to routino work while Couzene the general manager may be In Washington It Is un derstood that the mayor favors Evens president of the Detroit Motor Bus company for thia pan Kvans would succeed Joseph 8 Goodwin manager of the sys tem who is now'on a sick leave of absence for six months Mr Good win is not expected to return to ths of the system In freeing the Small announced accord with the dissenting opinion of Justice Carter of the supreme court who contrary to the majority opinion questioned constitution allty of the syndicalism law when the court decided the men must serve their sentences "No human agency" declared the governor accurately deter mine how long any human being shall be Incarcerated These men are not criminals Since their In dictment and conviction In March 1921 they have suffered severely I declined to extend clemency In their cases prior to their Incarcera tion No great good can come from longer Incarceration for That the antl syndlcallsm law was "war psychology" and that while It might be Weil In times of war enforcement of such a law "mlght 'to very short sighted In peace" was the contention or Justice carter in nis opinion On Way rom Russia The six associates lovrt who sre ear Ink at Joliet are Jack Carney Proctor Edgar Owens Ludwig Lore I England and Niels Kjar These were given Indeterm inate sentences of Ironi one to five years Ten others Samuel Rankin James A M'lsslnger Karl Sand burg Charles Krumbeln I'erry Shipman Morris A Stolar John Vogel Christensen Samuel Ash and Oscar Jesse Brown were sentenced to one year in the Cook County Jail One defendant A Caterfetdt is not affected by the commuta tion Caterfeldt Is on his way from Russia to begin serving his sen tence according to information re ceived by Will Colvin secretary of the pardon board i Await Scrapping of Quota by Other Nation Had Auumed in Good London Nov (By the Asso ciated Great Britain will scrap no more warships under the Washington disarmament treaty until the other nations have taken action and scrapped their quota according to the assurance given a questioner in the house of com mons Wednesday by Eyres Mon sell financial secretary to the ad miralty Asked Who had ratified that tre'r Commander Monsell replied: The treaty of Washington has been ratified by the United States Japan and thia country but not yst bjrance or Italy 14 Ships Slade Useless British capital ships ren dered useless for war purposes" he added "already have been sold to and removed to ship breaking firms for breaking up Six more have been rendered Incapable of war rtak service and two more will have been similarly dealt with by the end ot next month "So far as is known the United States and Japan have not disposed of ships except possibly obsolete ships that have been disposed ot In ordinary course "I would point out however that until the treaty has been ratified by all the powers none of them la bonnd to dispose of such Asked whether this answer did not disclose a serious situation In that Great Britain had scrapped every ship agreed to except the Lion whereas the United States and rance had done nothing Com mander Monsell replied: I think ft is right that this country should take the lead in good faith and that we should be the first country to show our Inten tion In spirit and letter to carry out this great treaty for the limita tion of armaments To another question he said: "Now that Great Intentions have been shown we undertake that no more snips snail De aeait until the other countries acted" idgemaynotI SEEK ELECTION MARTIN URGED Bitter ight Expected in Sen ate Led by La ollette and Borah Detroit roe Buroan M2 MacropoMtAn Bauk Bld Washington By ree PrM Private Eeaacd Wire Washington Nov 29 President Harding won a bard fought battle I in the house of representatives I Wednesday when the admlnlstra I tlon ship subsidy bill passed 208 i to 184 This marked the first I offleial move toward restoring the I American flag to the high seas I The provisions of the bill If it I Is finally enacted: by the senate I will give governmental financial aid to American vessels tof enable 1 them to compete with foreign i merchantmen who' are now said to I be able to haul at low costs because I of the employment of cheap foreign i labor The bill was drawn up orig inally by Chairman Lasker of the shipping board and was considered pet tneaenre ot the Pruildent'a I The Republican platform in 1920 de I dared tn favor of the restoration I ot an Jimerioan merchant marine 8 Repeblicana Vote No Nearly 70 Republican eongreM men deserted the Harding leader ship and voted against the bill with the almost unanimous association ot the Democrat The bill passed by a margin of 24 votes The Re publican majority la 1(7 Three Demoorats voted for IL Grave uncertainty exUta over the fate ot the bill in the senate Pro gressives like La ollette and Borab declare they will block its passage It was heard In capitol corridor Wednesday that the oppo sition had sufficient votes In the senate to kill the measure If this be true the rogreeelves will not flllbueter against the bill but per mit it to come to a vote The gen eral impression has been that the measure could be carried and If thU should be correct a strenuous ef fort to block It would be made by opponents of President Harding Whole Republican state delega tions from the middle west aban doned the President In the vote Iowa and Wisconsin did not con tribute a single vote In support of the measure Republican repre sentatives from Illinois Minnesota South Dakota Kansas and Missouri heretofore on all party measures bolted the White House Jeadershlp MJchtgaa Delegates Split A sharp division In the Michigan delegation was hotlceable Repre sentatives Vincent Brannan of Detroit and James McLaughlin of Muskegon being the only Wol verlnes on the floor to stand by tfie President Michigan congressmen voting against the measure were: Kelley ansIng Cramtnn Lapeer Scott Alpena James Hancock Mlchener Adrian Ketcham Hastings Mapes Grand Rapids' and Woodruff Bay City Representatives Codd Detroit ordney Saginaw and Smith Char lotte were absent but were paired In favor of the measure Early In the debate the provisionwhich would limit government aid to only those ships which would not transport liquor was struck out upon the motion of Representative Louis Cramton of I apeer Cramton who Is a dry explained that he offered the amendment not because he was In favor ot liquor being transported on American ves sels but because he feared ships whleh do not accept government aid would misconstrue the provision to mean that they would be permitted to liquor Republican loor Deader Mondell made tho leading speech In favor of the bill When he concluded he was greeted by applause and cheers from the loyal Republicans Mondell Lauda Measure "The enactment of this measure will bring joy and comfort Into the hearts ot the American people who love tho flag and glory In the story of Its former triumphs upon the high seas and to those who pray to have it restored to all the water lanes of the world" said Mondell "The question that Is squarely be fore us is: Shall Great Britain and Germany and all our rivals In Inter Contlnued on ace Two Column Seven Note in Bottle Tells Sea Tragedy EEP 0 LODGE ASKS COUZENS IS REPLY New York Nov 29 The following telegram was sent to Senator Couzens by Mayor Lodge of Detrqit you accept the management of the department of street railways of Detroit This tj a most important prob lem now confronting the city and one upon which citizens generally agree Ybur favorable decision is Late last night Mr Uouzens said he had not replied specifi cally to the question of Mr Lodge because he considered his Jormal statement earlier in the day that he would continue charge of the MO sufficient answer He said he had conferred with the corporation counsel before coming to New York and had asked a legal opinion whether he could continue to direct the affairs of the "He told me" Mr Couzens said could consistently be United States senator and still take an active part in the direction of the street railway projects Of course I will have to obtain the consent of mb successor as mayor and the street railway commission but I think they will permit me to Judge William Heston thor oughly approved of the action et Clara Hall and Rose Geer siatera fn law In doing their Christmas shopping early and he commended them for it but he told them they should have paid for the presents and fined them each (50 for falling In that rather Important part of the shopping Mrs Hall and Mrs Geer who live at 654 5 Bewick avenue weeplngly admitted to the judge that they had eaeh stolen 11 hand kerchiefs some stockings games ana various small articles for gifts In a downtown store but said It was their first a last ot it? fense 4 lO i reedom i Thanksgiving Deed Small Say no Man Can Judge Proper Sentence Springfield Ill Nov (By the Associated Press) Sentences of William Bros Lloyd and 16 as sociates serving time in Joliet penitentiary and the Cook county Jail for violation of the state anti syndicalism law Wednesday were commuted to expire at once by Governor Len Small The commutations were presented as Thanksgiving gifts prisoners Lloyd hurried to an automobile and was driven away a few mo ments after leaving the penitentiary it was intimated at the he was bound for his Chicago i six associates thoprlson with their did not accompany him authorities apparently were without any knowledge of the governor's Intention of commuting the sent ences of the men as a short time before arrival of the released pa pers it was stated at the prison that they had heard nothing of the gov ernor's action Robbers of Bank Mother ound Get $25000 Loot Burned to Death DETROIT MICHIGAN THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30 1922 TWENTY TWO PRICE out acting mayor had the right to seek election to succeed himself but Wil cox Ixdge and Richard Lindsay chairmen of the election commis sion believe otherwise They hold that Lodge is acting mayor and re mains a member of tho election commieaion i ny argue that aa I is acting running would DO mayor John dent of the council nrn femnnr the man who wrote the provision In tha charter aaya that this waa not Intended by the charter commission Nagel holds that Lodge has the right to enter the race for mayor and to retain hl present position as acting mayor until the election Other members of tho charter conuvlaalon agree with film With the probable withdrawal of odge Joseph A Martin commis sioner of public works loomed a the probable successor to Couzens Martin declined to state whether ha would seek the chair of chief execu tlvabut his friends and many aup sorters of Mayor Couzens are lini ng him to enter th race While Marlin refused to state whethsr lie had discussed the matter with Mayor Couzens It was generally be lieved that he would receive the en dorsement ot the retiring chief executive Some appointee of Conzena laid that' the senator had expressed willingness to campaign In Detroit tor Martin aa his succes sor Dr James Inches police com missioner who was mentioned as a candidate absolutely denied Wed nesday any Intention of becoming a candidate Clarence Wilcox cor poration counsel la also understood to have declined to enter the race Among others mentioned aa likely candldatea Wednesday waa rank Doremus who recently retired as Democratic congreaainan from De troit John Nagel now acting presi dent of tbs' council is not likely to be a candidate at the spring election although he will In all probability be tn the neiu tor mayor at general election next fall 2 THUGSSEIZE i 1 I ft I a i I i 3 11 Bed' A (w KEER of) gM 71V 0 JIM 'JIM HOW I Qa You' I I I I Sj 1 1 imZLai i ro rwi ijbm a i LUitriJr Tijiii i RPll gM aaaaBaMaMIBHHHaBaaaH.